Breakup Seasoon 2024

sinopsis

A young man brings his girlfriend to his rural Oregon hometown to introduce her to his family, only for things to go terribly wrong upon arrival.

Cast

• nelsoon Tracey. Director.
• Chandler Riggs. Ben.
• Samantha Isler. Cassie.
• James Urbaniak. Kirby.
• Brook Hogan. Mia.
• Carly Stewart. Liz.

Review

There is a scene in H. Nelson Tracey’s Breakup Season in which the Russell family patriarch, James Urbaniak’s Kirby, is tinkering with a model train in his living room while his son and his would-be daughter-in-law argue upstairs. Beside his wife, Mia (Brook Hogan), Kirby looks like a child witnessing his parents’ particularly ugly divorce in the middle of the holiday season. The roles become reversed as young Ben (The Walking Dead’s Chandler Riggs) and his girlfriend – or should we say ex-girlfriend? – Cassie (Captain Fantastic’s Samantha Isler) are turned into the adults putting a damper on their kids’ perfect Christmas by staging an unexpected dramatic breakup. The so-called kids are, of course, Ben’s parents and siblings, who become entangled in a relationship that they shouldn’t know so much about. This scene is perfect not only in how it subverts the traditional roles played by parents and children, but also in how it encapsulates the conflict at the center of Breakup Season, a movie that is all about taking your favorite holiday rom-coms and turning them on their heads.

Breakup Season is Tracey’s debut feature film, and it shows. The lack of experience, as well as money, is somewhat perceptible in a lot of the film’s most intimate shots, though not so much in its beautiful tableaus of small-town Oregon. However, if this is the first thing Tracey has to show the world, we are excited to see what he will do next. Breakup Season is a charming, heartfelt indie dramedy, one that probably won’t become a holiday staple, but that sure deserves to be watched by anyone that ever had a crappy Christmas. After all, even if Ben and Cassie’s circumstances are too specific to invite total identification, we can all relate to having a special date ruined by unforeseen circumstances, from a nasty breakup to an even worse pandemic. Breakup Season is a comfy watch that does a lot with very little and will surely find its way into your heart, even if its backgrounds are a little too sparse and its lighting a little too saturated.